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"BALL UP!" - Val's 2023 Aussie Rules Footy Tipping *Open to Everyone*
ROUND 1Thursday March 16
Richmond Tigers v Carlton Blues (in Melbourne)
Friday March 17
Geelong Cats v Collingwood Magpies (in Melbourne)
Saturday March 18
North Melbourne Kangaroos v West Coast Eagles (in Melbourne)
Port Adelaide Power v Brisbane Lions (in Adelaide)
Melbourne Demons v Western Bulldogs (in Melbourne)
Gold Coast Suns v Sydney Swans (on the Gold Coast)
Sunday March 19
GWS Giants v Adelaide Crows (in Sydney)
Hawthorn Hawks v Essendon Bombers (in Melbourne)
St Kilda Saints v Fremantle Dockers (in Melbourne)
If punters could lodge their tips by midnight WEDNESDAY March 15 (your time) it would be a great help, although I can accept them up until 8.15am THURSDAY (your time) if absolutely necessary.
AND!!! Don't forget to post the margin of the first game - Tigers v Blues.
I'm already here Val! :)I see they've added an extra round for this season, 24 instead of the usual 23.
Speaking of Tech...where's has he been of late? He has been doing the music or Premiership comps for a while now. Is he alright?
I'm in Val. it can't be worse than last year for the Eagles, can it?
theDuke wrote: "I see they've added an extra round for this season, 24 instead of the usual 23...."The explanation is:
"Across 24 rounds, the 18 clubs will play 23 matches each. The 2023 fixtures will see the bye rounds spread across June. Each team will have 1 bye at some point during rounds 12 to 15."
I am in too please. Could I change from Carlton to St. Kilda? They were always my team in Melbourne and play the Swans every season in the pride game which is always one of the highlights. The Swans thumped Carlton in what are normally pointless warm up matches last week. I now have my two Sydney friends to attend matches with in Melbourne as they moved here last November.
Will also be interesting to see how the super round goes which is a first when all matches are played over one weekend in South Australia, mainly in Adelaide but a couple in the region. This is a copy of what Rugby Union has done with a super weekend when all games are played in Melbourne. That happened this weekend with my beloved Reds smashing The Force by what was a record score for the Reds of 71 20. It was the final match and made up for their dreadful showing in the first round the previous week when they got thumped at home by the Hurricanes in Townsville. Thought they could have a chance by taking the kiwis to the tropics but that backfired somewhat.
Thanks Val looking forward to it.
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Tigers by 28
Cats
Eagles
Lions
Demons
Swans
Giants
Bombers
Saints
Tigers 23Cats
Eagles
Power
Dogs
Suns
Crows
Bombers
Saints
I'll try to keep up although its all a bit hectic at the moment and of course I'd like t keep the Lions please
My tips:Tigers - by 31 points
Cats
Kangaroos
Lions
Demons
Swans
GWS
Hawks
Freemantle
Come on you Roooooos!Onwards and upwards 📈 🙏
Richmond Tigers #13
Geelong Cats
North Melbourne Kangaroos
Port Adelaide Power
Melbourne Demons
Sydney Swans
GWS Giants
Essendon Bombers
Fremantle Dockers
I am up for another year of punting and supporting the Tigers...Richmond + 19
Geelong
West Coast
Brisbane
Melbourne
Sydney
Adelaide
Hawthorn
Fremantle
Suzy's tips:Blues x 7
Pies
North
Port
Dogs
Suns
Crows
Hawks
Saints
My tips:Blues x 9
Cats
Eagles
Lions
Dees
Swans
Giants
Dons
Freo
I have emailed/messaged everyone I have contacts for. David and Tim are the exceptions. I hope some of our tipsters turn up before the bounce at 7.20pm (my time)/8.20am (your time).
Tonight's result:Richmond Tigers (Philip) v Carlton Blues (available)
1.4.10 (Q1) 3.1.19
2.4.16 (Q2) 4.6.30
7.8.50 (Q3) 6.9.45
8.10.58 (Q4) 8.10.58
A draw counts as a win for everyone and I think I'll park the closest margin award into the consolidated fund to be redistributed at the end of the season.
Sorry Val I didn't get around to punting for the first game.Cats
Eagles
Power
Demons
Swans
Crows
Hawks
Dockers
Thanks for the heads up, teach me to lie in!
Balls balls balls!! Sorry Val, I've just managed to pull me head outta me ass for a brief while. If I may still put the others in?Geelong
West Coast
Port
BULLDAWGS
Sydney
GWS
Essendon
Fremantle
Again, apols for being late to the party.
Blastronaut wrote: "Balls balls balls!! Sorry Val, I've just managed to pull me head outta me ass for a brief while. If I may still put the others in?Geelong
West Coast
Port
BULLDAWGS
Sydney
GWS
Essendon
Fremantle
..."
You haven't missed much, the first game ended up as a draw!
sorry just saw it starts tonight I'll say Tigers by 11sorry just realised that the match has probably been played already.
cats
Eagles
port
bulldogs
SWANS
Giants
Hawks
Saints
if it's been played just ignore my first one Val.
Just realized how that looked.. what I posted. 'Sorry Val, I've just managed to pull me head outta me ass for a brief while. If I may still put the others in?Ha ha, don't worry, folk.... your heads are all safe! : )
A collective sigh of relief there Blastro! :-)
Tonight's result:Geelong Cats (available) v Collingwood Magpies (Tech?)
6.0.36 (Q1) 5.3.33
12.1.73 (Q2) 9.6.60
16.3.99 (Q3) 14.9.93
16.7.103 (Q4) 19.11.125
Great game with both sides giving no quarter. Some horrible injuries but Collingwood deserved the win.
Val wrote: "Tonight's result:Geelong Cats (available) v Collingwood Magpies (Tech?)
6.0.36 (Q1) 5.3.33
12.1.73 (Q2) 9.6.60
16.3.99 (Q3) 14.9.93
16.7.103 (Q4) 19.11.125
Great game with both sides giving no ..."
Yes...looked like Jeremy Howe was attempting to mimic his team's namesake.....i.e fly like a Magpie! Broken arm puts him out for a coupla months.
Yesterday's results:North Melbourne Kangaroos (Steve) v West Coast Eagles (Sussex)
3.4.22 (Q1) 3.3.21
7.7.49 (Q2) 4.4.28
10.9.69 (Q3) 8.6.54
12.15.87 (Q4) 12.10.82
Port Adelaide Power (available) v Brisbane Lions (David)
3.5.23 (Q1) 2.1.13
5.9.39 (Q2) 8.3.51
13.13.91 (Q3) 9.5.59
18.18.126 (Q4) 11.6.72
Melbourne Demons (TheFoe) v Western Bulldogs (Blastro)
3.3.21 (Q1) 2.4.16
9.4.58 (Q2) 5.9.39
13.8.86 (Q3) 8.10.58
17.13.115 (Q4) 9.11.65
Gold Coast Suns (Suzy) v Sydney Swans (Anita)
2.1.13 (Q1) 5.4.34
3.2.20 (Q2) 7.7.49
6.4.40 (Q3) 13.10.88
9.7.61 (Q4) 16.14.110
Today's results:Greater Western Sydney Giants (Duke) v Adelaide Crows (Dean)
2.2.14 (Q1) 4.9.33
4.8.32 (Q2) 8.12.60
10.11.71 (Q3) 10.16.76
15.16.106 (Q4) 12.18.90
Hawthorn Hawks (available) v Essendon Bombers (Val)
4.5.29 (Q1) 3.1.19
5.7.37 (Q2) 8.5.53
5.9.39 (Q3) 14.8.92
9.11.65 (Q4) 19.10.124
St Kilda Saints (Tim) v Fremantle Dockers (available)
3.3.21 (Q1) 2.1.13
5.4.34 (Q2) 5.4.34
6.6.42 (Q3) 7.6.48
10.7.67 (Q4) 7.10.852
Our tipsters' ladder is as follows:Round 1 (first number is correct number of wins - you want this to be high; number in brackets is the cumulative margin which is used to separate punters on the same amount of points - you want this to be low)
Sj Brooke (Steve) on 7 (13)
SussexWelsh on 6 (28)
Suzy on 5 (7)
Val on 5 (9)
Duke on 5 (31)
Dean on 4 (23)
Anita on 4 (41)
Blastro on 4 (41)
Philip on 3 (19)
Foe on 3 (41)
Tim on 0 (41)
David on 0 (41)
Charity donations are:
To be distributed at the end of the season - A$7.00 - Highest score (Port - 126)
To be distributed at the end of the season - A$7.00 (closest margin)
Steve (Backpack Bed For Homeless) - A$12.00 (weekly winner)
Well done Steve - off to a flying start!!
I've heard from Tech and he's taking a breather this year. Also Suzy - she's keen to participate again. I hope all is well with Tim and David - I have no way of contacting them other than Sussex's Premier League punt.
Please check your scores!!!N.B. PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR TIPS EARLY!!! THERE'S ANOTHER THURSDAY NIGHT GAME!!!
If anyone would like to view the AFL Ladder before submitting next week's tips, it's at
ROUND 2
Thursday March 23
Carlton Blues v Geelong Cats (in Melbourne)
Friday March 24
Brisbane Lions v Melbourne Demons (in Brisbane)
Saturday March 25
Collingwood Magpies v Port Adelaide Power (in Melbourne)
Adelaide Crows v Richmond Tigers (in Adelaide)
Western Bulldogs v St Kilda Saints (in Melbourne)
Fremantle Dockers v North Melbourne Kangaroos (in Perth)
Sunday March 26
Sydney Swans v Hawthorn Hawks (in Sydney)
Essendon Bombers v Gold Coast Suns (in Melbourne)
West Coast Eagles v GWS Giants (in Perth)
If punters could lodge their tips by midnight WEDNESDAY March 22 (your time) it would be a great help, although I can accept them up until 8.15am THURSDAY (your time) if absolutely necessary.
The Foxsports website has a three word summary for each team after every round. Here's their opinion on Round 1 performances. If I remember, I'll post this each week.ADELAIDE CROWS: Just kick straight!
BRISBANE LIONS: Absolute horror show.
CARLTON: Winner of draw
COLLINGWOOD: Luck? What luck?
ESSENDON: Welcome back Tippa!
FREMANTLE: Fyfe forward? Questionable.
GEELONG CATS: If it bleeds …
GOLD COAST SUNS: Talk is cheap.
GWS GIANTS: Gutsy, character-defining win.
HAWTHORN: Long year ahead.
MELBOURNE: Flexing their muscle.
NORTH MELBOURNE: Sheez he’s good.
PORT ADELAIDE: J H F.
RICHMOND: Loser of draw.
ST KILDA: Lyon era begins.
SYDNEY SWANS: Buddy brain fade.
WEST COAST EAGLES: Alarm bells sounding.
WESTERN BULLDOGS: Tall timber flops.
Hope for my Giants yet! :) Some surprising results there, but then again these early rounds never quite go as expected.Well done Steve, getting 7 out of that lot, is impressive!
Hi Val so sorry I forgot to send my tips. Thought I had when changing my team and did send to my work tipping comp which is done via ESPN. For what it is worth I tippedRichmond by 19
Geelong
Eagles
Port
Melbourne
Swans
Giants
Hawthorn
St Kilda
I know this is my stupid fault so will be in good time next week
Just done my tips for next week for work comp so will make sure send to you at same timeCats by 21
Melbourne
Collingwood
Richmond
Bulldogs
Freo
Swans
Essendon
Eagles ( keeping faith with Eagles Sussex although no idea why after their first game)
I'm a happy bunny! Essendon top of the table! Who would have predicted that? Unfortunately it's position at the end of the season that counts.
Think that for first time since we moved to Australia in 2010 Essendon really look promising after all they have endured.
I came to Australia in 1976 and was told at work that you had to join the tipping comp. I embraced Essendon (who were pretty hopeless at the time) because they were my banker - I could count on them to lose. I won that year's comp but have never been able to replicate that success. I may have won this comp (Amazon/카지노싸이트) once.I did get to enjoy Essendon's successes in the 1980s and particularly 2000. I was surprised to read that they are the team with the longest gap since winning any Finals game.
Apart from Gold Coast Suns I assume who have never made the finals. But guess they have only been around for 10 years.Your loyalty should be rewarded soon. After all the supplement furore and other ongoing matters it has been a tough time to remain a supporter but 50 years is just around the corner.
By the way meant to add so pleased you are reading Alexander McCall Smith. One of our pleasures. Have you started any of his Scotland Street series? Fantastic characters all based around his regular newspaper column.
I love the Scotland Street series - especially since I was born in Edinburgh and appreciate that's city's unwarranted snootiness over Glasgow. I went to see Alexander McCall Smith last Wednesday. He gave a talk at the Capitol Theatre in Swanston St, under the aegis of the Wheeler Centre. I last saw him in 2018 when I wrote:"It was general admission, sold out and the crowd was heaving in the foyer (Athenaeum Theatre), waiting for the doors to the theatre to open. I was waiting for a friend cos I had the tickets so found a posi just inside the front door and pressed up against the wall. Look up from my book (NOT a McCall Smith title) and there's the great man himself, walking through the front door, big smile on his face and aiming straight for me with his hand extended. "Thank you very much for coming," he says. All I could think to say was "Thank YOU for coming." I also said that I hoped I would be able to get a seat in this throng. "Oh, just follow me," he says, "I'll find you one." Unfortunately I had to demur as I was still waiting for P. But what a lovely man! Of course, afterwards, I remembered what I should have said - that I've always felt I was his mirror image (apart from being unable to write) - we are a year apart in age, he was born in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe but left to live in Edinburgh. I was born in Edinburgh but left to live in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. Maybe next time ..... The talk was very enjoyable. It was supposed to be an interview by local author Toni Jordan (unknown to me but apparently one of her books was a Richard and Judy Bookclub pick in 2008 if that's any recommendation), but he's such an accomplished raconteur that she barely got a word in. He spoke about how he submitted his first literary effort (a two page story), at age 8, to a publisher and was gratified to get a reply, encouraging him to keep going. Another tale was about a very young lad who came to his door with a story for him. It consisted of two sentences. "The naughty man stole all the toffees. The police came and arrested him." He thanked the young boy but said the story was more likely to be intended for Ian Rankin. That led him onto Ian Rankin and how he has written him into two of his Scotland St series - IR's reaction to both was very funny. The stories were too numerous to mention - they covered sharing bathrooms (with fellow students/flatmates, etc); a Cunard cruise around Cape Horn with no internet (making supply of his daily Scotland Street chapters very precarious); his fascination with primates, leading to his opera "The Okavango Macbeth" about an ambitious female baboon; his founding of The Really Terrible Orchestra, the name of which is licensed to him and you have to apply to found your own one - but he always gives permission; etc. etc. My friend P, despite being a voracious reader, has never read a McCall Smith title (saw the Precious Ramotswe TV series) and said he was reminiscent of Peter Ustinov in that he was a born story-teller. He also read a couple of his poems - one about how airline pilots would sound if they used a more literary form of language. Read it here:
The Language of Pilots
by Alexander McCall Smith
They speak with high authority,
Ailerons and wings responsive
To their touch: their words
Are functional too, but
Why, I wonder, should a pilot
Not be a poet too, and say:
“We now descend at last
Through banks of cloud,
White fields as wide
As any ocean, at least when viewed
From where we are,
A few moments ago, or were,
For it is Bernoulli’s principle
That lifts and keeps us here,
Between the patient earth below
And this empty, soaring sky”
“Ladies and gentlemen, rain
Falls in distant veils;
Look from your windows
To the starboard side
Of this metal tube
We call an aircraft;
Look out there, and see
The rain, the grey-white
Shafts of rain; do you know
That those wisps of cloud
You see up above
Are crystals of ice, falling
Like gossamer? Did you
Know that? Now please
About your waists
Affix the belts; you must,
As slowly towards the earth we drop,
To land’s embrace,
(Your belts adjust);
We are a little late, but what
Are a few minutes, nothing more,
Here and there? Not much, I think.
Goodbye, and take with you
The things you brought,
Your few possessions. Goodbye
Until we meet again,
And once more we carry you,
On wings of steel, on wings of steel,
To places you would wish to go;
Goodbye, dear friends, it matters not
Whether you’re a member of
The loyalty scheme we’ve got;
We love you all, as parents
Love their children equally,
Remember that, and please come back.
Goodbye again, and cabin crew
Unbar the doors, let light be seen,
Secure what needs securing and
Cross check, whatever that might mean.
Goodbye: for soon these great engines
On landing will be silenced, and the earth,
The patient earth, our mutual home
Upon which we all may stand or sit,
Will embrace us once again; welcome home.”
I liked the point he made that crime novels were actually about place (despite him staying in Sweden many times and never encountering a murder!). When I think of Colin Dexter's Morse, Ann Cleeves' Vera and indeed the Garry Disher novel I mentioned above, how true it is! "
Last week at the Capitol, all the questions from the floor were about Bertie and wishing dire things to happen to Irene. I'm not a fan of the Isabel Dalhousie series (I find her too much of a prig) or the von Igelfeld books. But I do love the The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series (I have them all) and decided to re-read them from the start. I'll see how many I get through this year and I intersperse them with other books. And it was great to revisit The Capitol, one of Melbourne's beautiful buildings - I hadn't been in it since I saw Tim Minchin there back in 2007 (I think). Earlier this year I saw the film "The Lost City of Melbourne" which included The Capitol.
I wonder if you went to Victorian Opera's production of Rossini's La Cenerentola at the Recital Centre on the 10th? I loved it! Beautiful voices and very funny. The cast looked like they were really enjoying themselves. This Thursday I'm going to Vic Opera's Melbourne, Cheremushki at The Playhouse.
Sorry Val, I could have sworn that I posted my tips. I've just found them on a piece of paper and it looks like I would have been bottom anyway. Onwards and upwards
Cats 10Lions
Magpies
Tigers
Bulldogs
Dockers
Swans
Bombers
Eagles
Hi Val,Some great stories and so pleased that Alexander McCall Smith is as wonderful in real life. Distraught to have missed seeing him last week.
No haven't been to opera for a while now and missing it. Must make more of an effort.
Will be going to Swans in a couple of weeks at the MCG v Melbourne. I was impressed with their first game against our bogey side and we were top for one night before your team pipped us on Sunday. As you say counts for nothing but it is nice for a few moments in time.
You are right about Bertie though. Think we can all hate his mother and hope she gets what she deserves! At least Bertie has made it beyond 6 now.
Tim wrote: "You are right about Bertie though. Think we can all hate his mother and hope she gets what she deserves! At least Bertie has made it beyond 6 now."But from what AMS said last Wednesday, I don't think there are any plans for him to advance beyond 7.
Last year's participants and their charities are as follows:
Val - Essendon (The Bombers) - Asylum Seeker Resource Centre -
Anita (Sydney Swans) - The Mirabel Foundation -
The Foe - Melbourne (The Demons) - Launch Housing -
David - Brisbane (The Lions) - The Song Room -
Philip - Richmond (The Tigers) - Canteen -
SJ Brooke- North Melbourne (The Kangaroos) - Backpack Bed For Homeless -
Tech Sergeant - Collingwood (The Magpies) - Oscar’s Law -
Blastro - Footscray (The Western Bulldogs) - Zaidee's Rainbow Foundation -
SussexWelsh - West Coast (The Eagles) - Save The Bilby Fund -
Dean - Adelaide (The Crows) - Sacred Heart Mission -
Suzy - Gold Coast (The Suns) - Friends With Dignity -
The Duke – Greater Western Sydney (The Giants) – Tinnitus Australia -
Tim - Carlton - Koala Hospital - Port Macquarie -
I haven't checked the websites but I hope they're still current. I won't tip for Les this year but will make a donation to Dementia Australia at the end of the season in her honour. Let me know if you want to change teams or charities. Teams without a supporter are Hawthorn, Geelong, St Kilda, Port Adelaide, Fremantle Dockers and Adelaide Crows.
I can email Blastro, TheFoe, Suzy, Dean and Tech to see if they want to participate. I'll contact Duke on his forum and hopefully Anita, David, Steve, Philip, Sussex and Tim will see my post on the Premier League tipping thread.
The AFL site is a bit confusing right now because they're showing pre-season games. I'll post their fixture once Round 1 is up. Foxtel's site is clearer:
or there is a one-page .pdf file at: